Reinvigorating the Humanities in Africa

Abstract

The African Higher Education Summit, March 10–12, 2015, convened by TrustAfrica in Dakar, Senegal, is planned as a three-day event with the theme " revitalizing higher education for Africa's future. " The Summit seeks to build a movement of like-minded institutions to transform the African higher education sector. Its objectives are to: 1. Build a constituency for transformation and investment in Africa's higher education. At the AHP/Unisa forum, leading academics on the continent assessed the consequences of the marginalization of the humanities and offered suggestions to reverse this trend. The result of their deliberations, the Recommendations for Reinvigorating the Humanities in Africa, summarizes the state of the humanities in Africa and presents recommendations to national and higher education policymakers attending the African Higher Education Summit.